skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was just about to purchase the most economical option at getapitchdeck.com but stopped because of the Paypal checkout. I would offer traditional checkout method with the drop down menu of credit cards. I have had too many issues with Paypal over the years and even the guest option turned me off. However for those that use it all the time it is nice to see, I am probably a minority in that aspect.

Your pricing seems fair, the demo video could be expanded and show more of how information is inputted and from the viewpoint of a new user instead of the finished product. It does look sharp and I hope it is easy to make but I was left wondering exactly what I was purchasing and how long it would take to make our final product. Website design is sharp, we love it! Overall looks like a great product and we may purchase later on today if we don't find something else to suit our needs. Keep up the great work!
Yes, however I think you can get a 15-puzzle situation - even if you do this only for waking the process - when you wake a lot of process at the same time on a machine with many cores.

I really prefer Linus suggestion, even if it's the hardest.
Apparently HN readers do not value ironic hyperbole and reductio ad absurdum.
0. Violentacrez sure seems to be disgusting, based on his online persona.

1. If you stand for free speech, you are going to be defending assholes and thugs and people who say disgusting things. We don't need free speech for people who emit rainbows. The ACLU defended the KKK's right to march, not because they thought the KKK was a bunch of nice guys or that the KKK would ever return the favor if the ACLU were in trouble.

2. It's more about the doxxing, which seems to be the one legal thing that isn't allowed on reddit. Either they have the policy that doxxing is horrible or they don't.
I don't know why comparing political donations to food puts these numbers in perspective. A better comparison is other nations fundraising.

Canadians spend less on campaigns than the "biggest spenders" on that chart combined, with 37 million citizens.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_political_financing_in_...

During the 2010 presidential election Brazilians spent $2 billion on campaigns and have ~200 million citizens.

http://articles.cnn.com/2012-01-24/world/world_global-campai...
At this point there is indeed only one ground label, but if you use the generic label you can create as many as you like. Nets in the schematic that are connected to labels with the same name are merged when switching to PCB.
I don't know if this is a new thing, but /r/creepshots appears to be a banned subreddit.
Natural productivity: GTD without such a big hubbub
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Although not officially, we have used some simple threading techniques in my Android class. Which is an elective course for Computer Science at FSU.
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It's ok for an user program to "hint" the kernel, but the problem with this approach is that it becomes the solution for many problems the kernel should take care of.

After all the purpose of the operating systems is to solve the hard nuts for you, isn't it?
Anyone who attempts to defend the guy's actions on Reddit is an idiot and it was only a matter of time before someone brought their anger into the real world HOWEVER an individual is one thing, a reputable, established company is a totally different situation.

Sure they are media and sure the media loves a witch hunt but the bottom line is that their actions are threatening and it's blatant blackmail. In my opinion their actions are as disgusting as their targets online activity.
Users had to manually upgrade to be using version 16 anyhow ... it was not yet set up for automatic updates.

A huge amount of news over nothing.
I do this in Python-land. There's a tool called 'pep8' named after the community sanctioned style-guide of the same name. Before I push any changes I have a script that runs my tests and the pep8 script. It's more of a backup-measure in my case since I have my editor run pep8, lint, and my unit tests constantly.
Multiple software engineers independently arriving at the same obvious solution? Sounds like something somebody would try to patent today...
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Perhaps is because of what we are used to, but I read much better with page turn than with page down.

I read a book in the computer, and I read it scrolling down. It didn't feel fulfilling. It was like reading a web-page.

But having read a couple of books in my phone (with the kindle app) it felt natural again, I enjoyed much more the books that way.

And no, the quality of the book was not the question. It was a free download (by the publisher) and a year or so later I've bought it on paper and read it again. It was much more fulfilling this way.

Perhaps in half a generation or so people will feel more natural going down than sideways, right now I prefer the later.
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No, but I can't for the life of me figure out what technical reason is preventing Apple from allowing this.

If an iPhone 3GS can run iOS6, I am perplexed why the same can't be true for the iPad 1.
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> even the most parallel programs tend to have bottlenecks

There's a big class of "embarrassingly parallel" tasks, which usually are only limited by how quickly you can move your data to where it needs to be.
There's a few banned subreddits. /r/Jailbait is probably the most high profile banning.
This seems fascinating. Can you share a more detailed description?

Like, what kind of data compression algo you chose at that time and what were the choices?

How did the techniques you developed at that time helped you later and what significance/standing they have in today's programming world?

How did your spell checker turn out in terms of performance and memory?

Were there better implementations around at that time? Which one was widely accepted as the best one?

Thanks in advance!
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It isn't banned, it was deleted via "Blackmail" according to the subreddit owner.
Who is violentacrez?
In regards to Violentacrez: Every community has shock jocks. I'm not condoning any of the actions, as that shit truly is creepy on an inhuman scale, but one should understand that without the community support, the guy has nothing.

The ultimate issue is not that an individual like Violentacrez exists, but instead that the community enables it.

> me to build out another alternative.

you could also just fork reddit: https://github.com/reddit/reddit
I'm in two minds about this, mainly because I have an utter lack of sympathy for both sides.

I'm a regular redditor, and in all honesty I wasn't aware of any of any of this drama- I don't go to any of the creppy, weird subreddits mentioned, and have long since removed /r/politics from my front page. So, "Reddit" isn't readying for anything- just some overly militant subreddits.
I absolutely believe the KKK has a right to march. But I also wouldn't participate, even as a spectator.
Sure, I'll disagree :) When you have enough memory bandwidth to compute the relationships of all pages in just a few seconds, then you can re-index the entire corpus according to whatever criteria you want (PageRank or face detection or whatever) for each query. So you have some spiders that add content to the database, and re-index the database for every query.
Go famously comes with gofmt for exactly this reason.
This article is a load of bs. We need to stop vilifying people because they've reached success. Having the choice, you'd pick to be in their shoes 10 times out of 10. They are job creators, and no, they aren't perfect - but their country club memberships, private jets, etc. do provide jobs as well.

We live in America, we all have the opportunity to create wealth and be as successful as we want. Instead of calling them names and whining about it, go be successful yourself and change what you don't like.

A little less talk, a little more action.
I'd rejoice, but history has proven that there's either another one lurking in obscurity or we'll see something similar crop up once the pitchforks are put back down.
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Re: Freespeech. No one is asking the government to censor reddit. Users are taking things into their own hands because the private company that owns reddit refuses to moderate completely inappropriate material. The system is working just as it should.
A reddit user who deleted their reddit account. They used to be moderator of some pretty sleazy subreddits like r/creepshots r/incest, etc,.
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Hi,

I just want to know when someone is working on something, how and when does he know it's about time to launch, because I think that everyone can always find something to refine or to add.
A prominent Reddit user who has been on the site for years and accumulated shit tons of karma and a proportionate amount of controversy. He established really questionable subreddits such as /r/jailbait and /r/incest and was extremely upfront about his motivations (claims it was more about exercising his right to free speech than being a pervert). The fact that he deleted his account is considered a big deal in the reddit world given his "reddit fame" and the fact that he was always willing to defend/justify his actions and never back down from said defence.
There you go! That's what I'm talking about!
What about publicly naming and shaming KKK members who did participate?
The now-deprecated API probably wasn't working for Twitter, so they got rid of it. Developers were warned before this happened, and your code is your responsibility, not Twitter's.
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I imagine they don't see it worth the effort to squeeze iOS 6 into the iPad's 256MB RAM.

(I know the 3GS also has 256MB of RAM but it's display resolution is much lower).
Hi

Many people will use the MVP idea as a guide - Will people find it useful if that something isn't refined or added?
Yes. A public apology in this case is just more insulting. It would be an open acknowledgement of the fact that a government can do whatever it wants without any consequences.
If you stand for free speech…

There are numerous different defintions of free speech. Some countries draw the line in different places. E.g. in the USA, you cannot say "shout fire in a crowded theatre", and there are various laws against revelaing some USA military knowledge. All "right to free speech" laws have limits, as they should.

It's more about the doxxing, which seems to be the one legal thing

Here's a thought, in the EU, we have data protection/privacy law. It's illegal to release personal details of people unless it's within the law. I wonder is doxing illegal?
We should just assume "not sure if this is legal" is not constructive unless we know something they should know, then we should OFFER that information
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I agree with your conclusion, that not looking like iOS is in itself a design goal, and one that makes sense. Just as with anything else in design, a lot of people are tired of looking at iOS rounded everything.
Yes, I'm sure everyone will eventually recover from being worked to the bone and having faith in someone who essentially cheated them.

Well, okay, maybe some of them might have been under a lot of stress and that might affect their personal life and even health or life expectancy.

Maybe some of the talented people who might have a fantastic career ahead of them won't recover and become jaded or leave the industry altogether.

Maybe none of that is heartbreaking, strictly said. It's "highly unfortunate" or "really sad", perhaps.

What really grates is your decision to nitpick about the choice of words because you saw something that was even sadder on TV.
I don't think the "Did you mean [...] ?" popup should block the password box. Maybe it should appear on the top instead? My email address uses a .io domain and it suggested the .com domain. Since it blocks the password box, it seems like it's assumed that the suggestion is correct, and that I'll click the box before continuing.

Aside from that, it looks great of course. I think that goes without saying.

EDIT: I don't think that this was really a call for feedback, but there's my two cents either way.
Horay for the death of flash and IE.
This links to a list of subreddits he moderated: http://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/118bxy/viole...

Warning: most of those are exactly what it says on the tin. Pics of dead kids is exactly that.

He also claimed to have had sex with his (of legal age) stepdaughter (whom he raised from a very young age).

I suspected a lot of his activity was bluster just to get people riled up, but I think I'm in the minority, and probably completely wrong.
Did you try to contact Google's refund people and ask about this? I would be surprised if they turned you away.

If they did turn you away, you might want to think about getting a credit card with purchase protection. All Amex cards, and some Visa and MasterCards have this feature.

If the merchant won't give you your money back within 90 days of your purchase, just contact your card company and they'll give you the money.
There are two problems with this:

First, there's no POSIX standard way to communicate this scheduling request to the kernel. So you either have to add a new API or add some "secret knock" to an existing API that will trigger the desired behavior. Neither of these encourage portable code, and neither help existing, deployed applications, which would have to be modified to get the desired result.

Second, it introduces a new axis for regressions. With today's scheduler, maybe setting this "I'm a control process" flag makes your application faster. But maybe the new scheduler implementation in the next major kernel release actually causes your application to run slower with this flag on than off. Some other applications might see the reverse.
They look like clickable buttons to me when used here:

https://www.windowsazure.com
I really do not see why it wouldn't be OK. You can go and meet people. It's not that you are forced to do anything :)
TIL: community of millions of users has representative sample of population.
But they had the option to leave anytime they wanted, no?

I don't consider it heartbreaking when someone makes a conscious decision to stick around in a crappy situation in the hopes of striking it rich and it doesn't work out.
OK. I've copied them in for now.
Free speech is meaningless if anyone sufficiently unpopular can be unmasked. This guy's life would probably be in danger over thoughtcrime.
The ipad1 has a larger screen which strains the gpu more than the 3gs does. (that is the paraphrased reasoning iirc)
I want to buy the Kobo instead of the paperwhite because I hear the screens are almost comparable and I don't want to be tied to the amazon ecosystem exclusively and the microSD support is a big plus. I need ePub support and I do not want ads. I hear the Kobo Glo screen is just as good.
Given the set of valid words in a document is (by definition) a subset of the words in the dictionary, I'd imagine you're better off holding the document in memory, building a datastructure from that and then looking through the disk for the set of words in the document that weren't found in the dictionary.
I think he said it would have made it easier if he could use the iOS 6 features, but he wasn't planning on dropping support for iPad 1 yet/
That's pretty neat. The suggestion tooltip in it's current form is a bit annoying though. I actually did type my email correctly, it even has a gravatar, but I can't stop the suggestion from overlaying half the password field.

Also, on a failed login attempt I usually typed my password incorrectly, not my email (especially when I can even see my gravatar). So you might want to keep the email field populated.
I really don't think AMD would have bet their next generation of chips on something they believed was a marketing stunt.

Once the upcoming chip changes get explained to the Marketing Department, however, maybe it kinda starts to sound like Marketing.
Appreciate your response. We are going to tweak our homepage and payment options very soon. Email me at marco@getapitchdeck.com as I'd like to answer any more of your questions and talk a bit further.
Reminds me of a friend's app http://www.sportspickerapp.com/
From this tiny sample, it appears that the US is fairly average.

Has anyone compiled a fuller list of per capita campaign costs by country? I could find none.
A good spell checker is still a major feat of software engineering.
Thanks for the feedback! I need to add the .io TLD, cheers for the nudge.
What always worries me is how accurate these dox are? What happens if they wrongly accuse someone? The internet is very unforgiving and it could literally ruin someone's life. They shouldn't be taking vigilante actions like this, especially endorsed by a company like Gawker. Although I disagree with the concept of these subreddits, this should be reported to the police - or worst case confront the users first. There seems to be little indication of this.

Take a look here, someone has already apparently been attacked because of these: http://www.reddit.com/r/CreepSquad/comments/11b39y/modpost_l...

Gawker has proved time & time again that it is a vile, ruthless company, I really wish this is an internet-wide ban.
Indeed, and combining it with pyflakes makes for a great combo, ensuring that code you commit both looks generally correct, and passes basic sanity checks.
I know, I actually read the paper like a year ago. Actually, what was turned later into Amdahl's law is more or less a side-note in the paper :)

The parent said "most parallel programs", which I translated to embarrassingly parallel problems.

> But "real" supercomputers and clusters will spend the most money to reduce bottlenecks precisely because they want to run those programs that are the most limited by them.

I agree, but from the talks I have heard most time (= money) is spent trying to work around these bottlenecks as good as possible in software (i.e. incremental algorithms, pipelining, ...) to keep the machines busy. Then again, I hear a lot more talks about software than hardware, so you may be very right. If you have any particular example in mind, I would love to read about it!
Does DAWG really provide more sophisticated searches than a trie being basically a minimized automata for the trie?
This is a fairly typical position - i.e. private corporations are under no obligation to protect free speech, therefore censorship in a private context is okay.

Which is an argument that flies legally, but not morally depending on what you believe.

If you believe in free speech, then using the fact that your website is private to censor others is not a violation of the law, but it certainly seems like a violation of your own declared ideology. Which is to say, you would support free speech until it got inconvenient.

Reddit as a community seems to place a high value on free speech, so while they're under no legal obligation to keep things open, it would be a violation of its own declared ideology if they started censoring.

Note that I don't miss the creepy subreddits at all, but if you're one of the people on /r/politics, /r/atheism, or whatever who are quoting Voltaire all the time, it seems hypocritical to call for censorship.
Taking that to the next level, you can improve that data structure to allow sharing between later similarities in words after they've diverged from their common prefixes. That's particularly helpful to cut down on redundant storage of suffixes like -ing, -ed, -ly, etc.

The directed acyclic word graph (DAWG) is a popular approach to that: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directed_acyclic_word_graph
Good points, thank you!

I'll add these to our to-do list
Unbelievable. Talk about an IT shop that was out of control.
It publishes four articles every two weeks for $1.99 per month with a 7-day free trial.

If I get a 7-day trial, how do I know that those 7 days will coincide with the 14 day article release cycle? This doesn't line up, as though it were designed to be confusing.

That sentence is worded strangely - talking about a future project you're organizing as though it's an object of someone else's which already exists. It sounds impersonal and odd. How about:

"The Magazine will publish eight articles per month at a price of $1.99, and we offer a one week free trial."
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We are currently working hard at integrating with the octopart api. We aim at building a huge crowd sourced component lib, so you will never have to enter components again.

Grid and measurements are definitely on top of the list.

Autorouter is a bit lower, but want that. We will probably first do some form of assisted routing.

At this point you can download your gerber files and send them to a manufacturer of your choice, but we are working on integrating with services like BatchPCB.
Translation:

He spends all of his time at work doing stuff like this and doesn't want his employer to find out that he's not actually doing the job he's supposed to.
According to the App Store description, you get access to all back issues with the 7-day free trial.
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Interesting article, explains some of the tradeoffs that OSs make in scheduling.

OS scheduler optimizations are difficult. Often what makes the desktop nice and snappy makes background stuff slower. There are always trade-offs. Its also allows vendors to sell expensive versions of linux with different schedulers (redhat mrg...cough..) The Completely Fair Scheduler with its tree of process seems to work quite well though.

It seems like they were trying to optimize for specific hardware (the link to "scheduling domains" was interesting) when cpu swapping. (2 cores vs 2 sepearate cpus...)
good intentions, but..

Sometimes its useful to let users explicitly control which cpus processes can run on (process affinity). On the HPUX variant we used they let us set up groups of cpus and then map processes run on those cpu sets. you could also select scheduling of each process startup. It was a pain to get things running, but in the end it worked great. Manually selecting the wrong scheduler and process priority could result in some processes running terribly however.
I would imagine he's referring to the non-blocking IO and evented model. ASP.Net and friends use threads for everything, which allows for heavier processing, but also is more restrictive in terms of concurrency.
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Can I just drop this into a bootstrap project or do I need to rename all my button classes?
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What is exactly wrong with taking pictures of clothed people on public places without their knowledge? I thought this happens all the damn time. Before the collective PC hysteria I saw /r/creepshots mostly as an oddity. Strange people doing strange things.

If /r/creepshots gets banned it will be just another step towards suppression of completely legal speech, because of emotional hyperventilation that has no basis in reality.